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- Title
Identifying Cancer Mutations as Therapeutic Targets.
- Authors
Azvolinsky, Anna
- Abstract
The article focuses on the possibility of using cancer mutations as targets for cancer therapy, which comes at a time when healthcare professionals are slowly adopting diagnostic screening for a specific molecular alteration. Topics discussed include the two major classification among patients who develop resistance after chronic exposure to an agent inhibiting the cancer pathway and the significant role to be played by comprehensive genetic screening for this kind of treatment.
- Subjects
GENETIC mutation; CANCER cells; CANCER treatment; GENETIC testing; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014, Vol 106, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/dju276